450% rise in European softwood logs export to China; prices down sharply
15 million m3 of softwood logs have been exported from Europe to China from January to October 2019 [...]
January 28, 2020
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Calls for more softwood planting in Germany
The proportion of softwood trees in German forests is dropping, as more hardwood planting started decades ago for [...]
January 28, 2020
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Overview of the Russian plywood market; demand and price evolution
Russian plywood sales in the domestic market fell on average by 24.5% from 2014 to 2018; [...]
January 28, 2020
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UPM might close Chapelle mill in France
In September 2019, UPM announced plans to sell its Chapelle newsprint mill in Grand-Couronne, France. [...]
January 28, 2020
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Central European bark beetle crisis puts pressure on Estonian timber prices
Timber prices in Estonia have started rapidly falling from their spring-time high; Estonian wood prices [...]
January 27, 2020
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Mayr-Melnhof to invest EUR 130 million in a cross-laminated timber plant
Austrian company Mayr-Melnhof will invest € 130 million on new cross-laminated timber production plant at the company's site [...]
January 27, 2020
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U.S. lumber company allegedly found importing high-risk Peruvian timber
An investigation by Timberleaks has found that New Orleans, Louisiana-based Robinson Lumber Company has a [...]
January 27, 2020
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Finland’s forestry industry paralyzed by strikes
Some 9,000 workers at Finnish paper mills will start a three-week strike this Monday after wage talks broke [...]
January 27, 2020
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Vietnam becomes Japan’s main pellet supplier
The earthquake, tsunami and resulting damage to the Fukushima nuclear power plant, triggered by the Great East Japan Earthquake on [...]
January 27, 2020
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Sawmill closures in New Zealand as overseas market subsidies inflate log prices
Sawmills in New Zealand find it hard to be profitable when overseas competitors can benefit from subsidies, the main timber [...]
January 27, 2020
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